13S PROCEEDINGS OF [Jail. 



From A. H. Palmer, New-York. 

 From J. Coppinger, New- York. 

 From W. Bacon Stevens, M. D., Savannah, Georgia. 

 From Hon. J. R. IngersoU, Member of Congress. 

 From Captain J. Sanders, Engineer Corps, New- York. 

 From J. H. B. Latrobe, Baltinrore. 

 From Dr. Samuel G. Morton, Philadelphia, 

 From Joshua Leavitt, New- York. 

 From S. F. B. Morse, New- York. 

 From James Glenn, Pratt's Hollow, New- York. 

 From H. H. Sylvester, Washington. 

 From Hon. Albert Gallatin, New- York. 

 From Drr Marcus C. Buck, U. S. Army. 

 From W. Harvey Kenney, M. D., Philadelphia. 

 From Edmund F. Brown, Washington. 

 From Jared Sparks, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 From Mrs. Dr. James Mitchell, Sidney, N^w South Wales. 

 From M. Joniard, Paris. 



From Camille Zeringue, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. 

 From R. C. Taylor, Philadelphia. 

 From T. A. Conrad, Philadelphia. 



The following letter from the Hon. H. S. Legan', Attorney Gen- 

 eral of the United States, was read : 



Office of the Attornby General, December 18, 1841. 

 Gentlemen : I have bad the honor to receive your letter of the Ist instant, in 

 which you inform me, on behalf of the National Institution for the Promotion of 

 Science, that its constitution makes the Heads of Departments, at Washington, 

 directors of rt, provided they consent to serve. 



Feeling, as I do, a lively interest in the promotion of all liberal studies, I sliall 

 be too happy to contribute, in however slight a degree, to further the objects of your 

 society. But in accepting, as I do, very gratefully, the honor to which I have been 

 officially called by you, I must bespeak for myself the indulgence which I know I 

 shall require, if the active performance of my duties, as a Director, be prevented by 

 engrossing business of a different kind. 



I have the honor to be, with high consideration, gentlemen, your obliged and 

 obedient servant, H. S. LEG ARE. 



Messrs. J. J. Abert, 



A. O. Dayton, 

 Francis Markok, Jr. 



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